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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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Obs. That it's a greater mercy to be kept from sin and all evil in our Afflictions and Troubles, 1then from the afflictions themselves; This is a special Truth, for whose heart is not troubled about the Affliction more then the Sin? Whose heart is not more upon the passive evil he suffers, then the active evil he doth? Whose soul is made so spiritual that no vexation, or pain and loss in body or Estate doth affect him so greatly, as the sinful distempers and troubles of his soul doth.
Obs. That it's a greater mercy to be kept from sinne and all evil in our Afflictions and Troubles, 1then from the afflictions themselves; This is a speciall Truth, for whose heart is not troubled about the Affliction more then the Sinne? Whose heart is not more upon the passive evil he suffers, then the active evil he doth? Whose soul is made so spiritual that no vexation, or pain and losse in body or Estate doth affect him so greatly, as the sinful distempers and troubles of his soul doth.
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But to open this Consider,
1. That it's Gods special Gift and his power only that keeps his people from sin in their afflictions: For did not God sanctify, Did not God teach as well as chasten, the Evil of Sin and the Evil of Punishment would always go together, the time of our trouble, and the time of our transgressions would never ⟨p. 445⟩